Cabinet-drawer.



H. CLEMETSEN.

CABINET DRAWER.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 7. 1912.

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HANS CLEMETSEN, OF GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN, ASSIGNOB TO VALLEY CITY DESK COMPANY, A CORPORATION OF MICHIGAN.

CABINET-DRA'KVER.

Application filed September 7, 1912.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Hens CLEMETSEN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Grand Rapids, in the county of Kent and State of Michigan, have invented new and useful Improvements in Cabinet-Drawers, of which the following is a specification.

My present invention relates to cabinet drawers, and its object is to provide a drawer which shall be very easily movable in opening and closing.

This object is attained by, and the invention finds a preferable embodiment in, the structure hereinafter described, illustrated by the accompanying drawings, in which:

Figure 1 is a view in perspective of a cabinet frame having drawers and embodying my invention; Fig. 2 is a vertical section of the same on lines s-s of Fig. 1; Fig. 3 is a like view of the same on a line corresponding with line zc-w of Fig. 2; Fig. i is a fragmentary enlarged view of the inner end of a drawer illustrating a form of runner bearings; Fig. 5 is a bottom plan view of the same; Fig. 6 is a vertical section of the same on line ZZ of Fig. 1-; Fig. 7 is a transverse section of the runner on which such drawer travels; Fig. 8 is a fragmentary side view thereof; Fig. 9 is a fragmentary enlarged view of the inner end of a drawer illustrating another form of runner bearings; Fig. 10 is a bottom plan view of the same; Fig. 11 is a vertical section of the same on line 00 of Fig. 9; Fig. 12 is a transverse section of the runner on which such drawer travels, and Fig. 13 is a fragmentary side view thereof.

The drawer rack or cabinet frame 1 is, in the construction shown and for purposes of illustration, furnished with two drawers 2 Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 6, 1e15,

Serial No. 719,239.

and 3, equipped with variant forms of my invention. These drawers respectively travel in their opening and closing movement on the centrally disposed several runners, at, The inner end of each drawer is provided with a roller 6 suitably mounted thereon, as by being pivoted on the metal plate 7, screwed, as shown, to the face of the drawers end, and adapted to roll on the top face of the runner in the opening and closing movement of the drawer, and thus support the drawer at its inner end. The drawers are guided laterally in such move ment by the rollers 8, 9, adapted to freely travel on the sides of their respective 1Ll11- ners in the opening and closing of the drawers, the rollers 8 being conical in form as shown and adapted to engage suitable and correspondingly-formed bearing surfaces 10 of their runner 4. it will be seen that these laterally-bearing rollers 8, 9, are pivotally carried by the metal plates 7, as on their downwardly-turned ears 11, and the rollers 6 on the bacinvardly-turned ears 12.

Not confining myself to the construction shown or described, I claim:

In a device of the character described, a drawer runner having overhanging sides inclined toward each other downwardly, and a drawer having a roller traveling on the top surface of the runner and conical side rollers traveling on and engaging beneath such inclined sides.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

HANS CLEMETSEN. Witnesses Annrson S. GOODMAN, CYRUS W. Rica.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. C. 

